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this is a great computer it changed how we

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think about mobility and probably saved the spines of an entire generation of

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latte sipping college kids so why is it then that apple is so

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determined to make it the worst product in their lineup

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we weren't even sure that there would be an apple event this spring due to the

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global silicon shortage but such mortal follies are beneath apple apparently and

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leading up to the event there were tantalizing rumors of new ipads with

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mini led backlights air tags trackers

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redesigned imacs with ipad-like displays and apple silicon inside a new apple

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pencil for some reason and more as for what we

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got it was most of the above and i have got some thoughts

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yes yes we do Mac Address and you should

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subscribe to it for a more apple-centric experience but that doesn't mean that i

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don't have my own opinions now i said most of the predictions ahead of the

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event were true but there were still some unexpected moments like oh i don't

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know a Thunderbolt equipped ipad

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both sizes of the new ipad pro come equipped with apple's m1 soc meaning

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they're not only much more powerful than previous gen a13z models they are now

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able to use thunder freaking bolt for things like fast direct attached storage

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full resolution 6k output to the pro display xdr numerous connected

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peripherals and presumably more

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so Thunderbolt docs then will suddenly be an extremely compelling add-on for

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anyone whose workflow incorporates an ipad and

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that's about to be a lot more people now that the

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liquid retina display xdr is a thing

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unnecessarily long branding aside apple is boasting a thousand nits full screen

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brightness and 1600 nits peak in HDR mode on this thing

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with a million to one contrast ratio thanks to the new mini led backlight

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that provides 2500 local dimming zones

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what that means is that whatever the results of the uk advertising

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authority's investigation into apple's pro-display xdr performance claims

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this screen matches that one according to apple's own internal metrics which

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frankly is good enough for me to be pretty darn stoked

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another side bonus is that higher sdr content brightness will come in handy if

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you're in a brightly lit coffee shop the bottom line then is that if apple is to

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be believed here the new ipad pro is basically a little tiny pro display xdr

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and then a top model m1 macbook air clipped to the back of it in a slim

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package and that is a huge deal it even comes with the same 8 or 16 gigs of RAM

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depending on your storage option and there's a new 2 terabyte storage tier

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just like on the m1 max i just wish it didn't cost eleven hundred dollars extra

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price aside though these changes make this new ipad more of a computer than an

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ipad has ever been and quite frankly if it performs anywhere near what apple

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claims it will it may be outright preferable to the venerable macbook air

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depending on your use case especially considering that you get more computer

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for the starting price of just 7.99 on the 11 inch model i mean it doesn't run

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macOS but with the way the lines between ipads and macbooks have already

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blurred it's probably a matter of time before most of your favorite apps are

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cross-compatible i cannot wait to get my

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hands on one of these just like you should get your hands on a desk pad

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before they're LTT Store.gone now ipads of course weren't the only

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major announcement the new 24-inch imac is

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well okay when you take an ipad and give it the performance and i o of an

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ultrabook i'm impressed when you take a desktop and you do the same thing it's

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just it's a little less wow i mean it looks awesome the chunky bezels of

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yesteryear are basically gone which means that while it's got roughly the

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same frame size as a 21 and a half inch imac you're getting a 23 and a half inch

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retina display with the same pixel density at four and a half k res now the

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chin bar did manage to stick around but overall thickness of the device is

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ridiculously thin and the ipad-like

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sharp but rounded industrial design is

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so refreshing to see after basically no fundamental changes since 2007

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the fact that it comes in so many colors rather than just silver is also probably

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going to make it a hit among college students and families and the newly

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designed magsafe like power connector gives it a very cohesive look on the

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desk albeit that comes at the cost of having

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an external power brick for the first time on a desktop mac

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one benefit of this approach is that the brick can be equipped with gigabit

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Ethernet in it for a cleaner look on your desk although the drawback of

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course is that the base model imac actually does not come with a wired

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Ethernet connection the one saving grace i can think of of

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this innovation is that if you clue in at

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some point that wi-fi just cannot achieve the speed and more importantly

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the reliability of a copper cable you can either hang a dongle off of your

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sexy machine or just upgrade your power adapter later on down the line

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if you're getting chromecast ultra flashbacks you're not alone

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bringing us to another sourcebot specs

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as a result of the limited i o thanks to the unmodified m1 soc that apple is

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using for the new 24 inch imacs the lower end model the one with no Ethernet

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out of the box has just two Thunderbolt slash usb 4 ports and a headphone jack

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that's it then for 200 more the up model

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version gets an extra GPU core that gigabit Ethernet power adapter and two

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extra usb 3 ports both of them come with wi-fi 6 and

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bluetooth 5 though and to be fair this is marketed as a basic

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family or dorm computer so chances are

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good that many potential buyers may have no desire to use Ethernet although the

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chances are also good that they're going to gripe to geek squad about crappy

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performance and the solution to it will be

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plugging in a cable if i was being realistic though this is all i could

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have expected and for someone considering an imac 21 and a half inch

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certainly this is a huge step up i just

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hoped that by the time desktop apple silicon machines arrived the m1's i o

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limitations would have been in the rear view mirror one welcome arrival from the

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m1 though is the new webcam or more specifically the mobile image processing

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routines that for years have been better than any desktop so we're expecting more

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natural lighting and color balance like we saw with the 720p facetime cameras on

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the m1 macbooks except better because this is now a 1080p webcam and also

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they've paired it with what apple calls the best microphone ever on a mac so it

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should be exceptional for teleconferencing we'll have to see of course but apple has a pretty good track

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record here on their m1 devices another area apple has a good track

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record is sound and it's here that we discover the reason that the chin bar

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managed to stick around a total of six

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drivers embedded in the chin claimed to deliver room-filling audio in any space

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and while that's obviously horseshit it's probably going to sound pretty darn

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good if recent macbooks are any indication this this is just this is one

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of those why marketing moments from apple like unless

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they've managed to bend time and space itself the idea that spatial audio can

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be done with what are effectively down firing stereo speakers is

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a little out that like all they had to say was it sounds really great from four

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feet away which is probably where you're gonna be sitting and we wouldn't have

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had to call them on such an insultingly obviously false statement anyway we're

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definitely gonna test it for ourselves so get subscribed so you don't miss our

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full review when we get our hands on one to round things out literally the imacs

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come with a redesigned color matched keyboard with a dedicated emoji key and

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a refreshed magic mouse to go with it refreshed magic mouse you say Linus did

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they finally move the brain dead bottom charging port that we've been mocking

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for years no no apple actually spent r d money

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adding color to the magic mouse and then didn't put in the extra effort to retool

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the chassis and redesign the pcb to put a sensible charging port that lets you

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use the mouse while you're charging it and how dare you question their choices

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by the way the included tenkeyless keyboard looks all right however and the

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higher tier versions of the imac get a version of the keyboard that comes with

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touch id for those of you wanting a full size layout apple does have it available

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and both versions also have the emoji key honestly though touch id is

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so convenient on the macbook that for me that would be a tipping point to just

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pay the extra 200 because of course you get all those other benefits and apple

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already charges a hundred dollars for a new keyboard as it is so if you ever

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wanted to add touch id you're half of the way there even without properly

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reviewing these things i'm gonna come out and say don't buy the base model if you're

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looking to buy a new imac if you are looking to buy a new imac though there's

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a chance that you're in the market for an apple tv as well and there's a new 4k

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model coming with support for 4k 60 HDR video and what apple's calling enhanced

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airplay that allows an HDR capable i device to display HDR content on the tv

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there's a new remote that has a click wheel like scrubbing feature and a

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dedicated siri button on the right side but the real magic comes from what apple

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is calling color balance using an iphone's camera the apple tv

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can actually adjust its output to basically calibrate your tv for you

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that is so cool as long as the content

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is available on the apple tv because it doesn't touch the actual tv settings why

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this isn't a more common feature on i don't know say

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samsung tvs and samsung phones i will never know and i mean for that matter

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what about lg tvs and lg for

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oh too soon anywho it probably won't be as

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accurate as calibrating with a colorimeter but the reality of it is

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most people won't notice the difference and just want their content to look good

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enough and this should probably do the trick following something resembling a

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fever dream apple also announced another new product air tags what are they

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they're tiles they hook directly into apple's find my system and use the u1

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ultra wideband directional sensors to pinpoint the exact direction and

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distance away from your tiles excuse me sorry air tanks

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apparently they have unwanted tag detection so you can't use it to track

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people and they've got a range of rather expensive leather holders

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at 30 a pop it's a little cheaper than a tile and apple offers free engraving for

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them so good job i guess

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actually yeah good job apple claims a year of battery life on a standard user

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replaceable cr2032 battery i mean

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this should be the bare minimum for a product like this but hey

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apple is not manufacturing e-waste for once we got to give them credit where

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it's due right come on

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all right thank you on that subject i'm not sure if apple is doing the world a

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solid with the whole merge and build credit together apple card family thing

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but if you're getting one of those anyway it's not a bad perk i suppose you

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can use it to pay for the new podcast subscription that they're rolling out that works sort of like early access or

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premium service to support creators that you enjoy kind of like patreon or

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say Floatplane i don't know what their revenue split is though so again it's hard to say if

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that's a hooray or not really a hooray um

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see what else did they announce oh right uh the iphone 12. um now it comes in

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purple neat that damp squib of an announcement was

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actually the first product of the event so um

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own take on the event which i have not seen or heard anything about yet so i'll

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be interested to see how jonathan's interpretation differs or is similar to

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my own and Anthony's